Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann is the nation's #1 progressive radio talk show host (also simulcast as TV in 40 million homes by Dish Network/Free Speech TV), and the New York Times bestselling, 4-times project Censored winning author of 21 books in print. He is live daily from noon-3 PM ET in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Grand Rapids, Asheville, Lansing, and on over one hundred other outlets nationwide including Chicago, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Madison, Denver, and on XM and Sirius Satellite radio, and simulcast as a TV show on the Free Speech TV Network (www.freespeech.org) carried on the national satellite TV system, Dish Network. He is also a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of 20 books in print and over 200 nationally published articles. His daily progressive radio talk show, now in its eighth year on the air, replaced Al Franken on the Air America Radio Network, is syndicated and distributed to radio and television stations nationwide and in Europe and Africa by Dial-Global (commercial radio), Pacifica (non-commercial radio), and Free Speech TV (nationwide satellite TV distribution on the Dish TV Network and to local cable TV networks). For the past two years in a row, Talkers Magazine names Thom Hartmann as the 10th most important talk show host in America, and the #1 most important progressive host, in their “Heavy Hundred” ranking. Thom has spent much of his life working with and for the international Salem relief organization (www.saleminternational.org) and he and his wife Louise founded a community for abused children in New Hampshire (www.salemchildrensvillage.org) and a school for learning disable and ADHD kids (www.hunterschool.org). As an entrepreneur, he's also founded several successful businesses which still are operating, and lived and worked with his wife, Louise, and their three children on several continents. He was born and grew up in Michigan, and retains strong ties to the Midwest, although he and Louise now live on a houseboat in Portland, Oregon, complete with a radio studio and their mascot attack-cat, Higgins.